django 2 not able to load env variables from the .env file to setting.py file

Question

I tried to load environment variables from a file named .env to settings.py file here i created the .env file and settings file same folder.

this is my .env file

Answer 1

For future Googlers here's another approach. Inside manage.py add:

from dotenv import load_dotenv
load_dotenv()

Now you can do the following anywhere else in your project (including settings.py) to get access to environment variables:

import os
os.environ.get("NAME")